Dirección- Academic degree in International Business or Administration, Industrial Engineering, Logistics, or comparable qualification
- Fluent English language skills
- More than 3 years of experience in Purchasing
- Have worked in a multicultural environment, good communication skills and proactive approach are required
- Negotiation skills
- Customer orientated skills
- Experience in MS applications (Excel, PowerPoint)
- Know and analyze processes and/or information to propose improvements within the purchasing department.
- Implement measures and support the purchasing team in reaching team's common targets.
- Region-specific operational requirements, e.g., tax application support, Intrastat, etc.
- May be required to assist Global or Regional Category colleagues on carts approvals and SAP orders conversion due to local systems accesses needed.
Additional Qualifications:
- Presentation skills
- Project Management skills
- Knowledge of logistic concepts
- Contract management
Core Responsibilities:
- Approval and negotiation of shopping carts up to defined regional value threshold.
- Creation of purchase orders w/o value limits and in line with our guidelines.
- Management of the RfQ-Process for demands/shopping carts up to defined regional value threshold, incl. the awarding of suppliers.
- Responsible for new vendors set up and new contracts approval submittal for owned negotiations.
- Find saving opportunities by bundling operational demands up to defined regional value threshold, substitution of suppliers, negotiations of payment (DPO)/ delivery terms and warranty extensions.
- Processing of order confirmation (maintaining all relevant data in the system, clarification, and approval of deviations) for critical/sensitive orders (e.g., storeroom items) defined by Regional Operations
- Escalation Management/Problem Solving by executing approaches with the aim to secure local objectives.
- Invoice clarification in case of price deviations.
- Steering and monitoring the automated replenishment process for coded materials.
- Identification and support on the creation of electronic catalogs to reduce manual processing requirements, while promoting the usage of existing ones.
- Contract management, and knowledge of commercial conditions according to the country of operation.
- Mentoring of junior Operational Buyers.
